Mark Underwood is among the title characters who frequent the Palladium in his first novel, The Picturegoers. Tubby becomes obsessed with Kierkegaard in his novel Therapy. One of his characters is working on a thesis entitled "The Structure of Long Sentences in Three Modern English Novels"; that character is the protagonist of The British Museum Is Falling Down. He wrote about an exchange between the universities of Plotinus and Rummidge in Changing Places, and the University of Rummidge also features in two other novels by this man. For 10 points, name this author of Small World and Nice Work, whose novels often satirize academia.
Mark Underwood is among the title characters who frequent the Palladium in his first novel, The Picturegoers. Tubby becomes obsessed with Kierkegaard in his novel Therapy. One of his characters is working on a thesis entitled "The Structure of Long Sentences in Three Modern English Novels"; that character is the protagonist of The British Museum Is Falling Down. He wrote about an exchange between the universities of Plotinus and Rummidge in Changing Places, and the University of Rummidge also features in two other novels by this man. For 10 points, name this author of Small World and Nice Work, whose novels often satirize academia.
Mark Underwood is among the title characters who frequent the Palladium in his first novel, The Picturegoers.
{David Lodge}